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Rookie23
06-08-01, 10:33 AM
I have a Tyan Trinity KT-A (S2390B) board and an Athlon 1.3GHz processor. (the 200, not the 266)

The Tyan board has no settings for changing the clock multiplier in the BIOS and no jumpers for it either. It auto-detects my chip and sets it to 12.5 x 104.

I can raise the FSB speed as high as about 110-111 with the 12.5 multiplier for up to 1375-1387MHz without any crashing. Any higher than that it starts getting unstable.

Now, this board has a pair of jumpers which change the FSB to 133 instead of 100. However, when I make this change the machine won't boot. It won't even run a POST. I think it's because the multiplier is too high at 12.5. I want to try lowering the multipler to 10.5 or so, but I have no settings in the BIOS to do so. The processor is not locked, so I won't run into that problem.

Are there any utilities out there I can use to change the multiplier?

el
06-08-01, 10:38 AM
nope I would get a new mobo with a kt133a chipset or you could do the L6's to give you a higher fsb /lower multiplier. Are you sure that you don't have a bios option for multiplier set to auto? try updating to the newest bios too! maybe it is included. check for details at anandtech.